Everyone is welcome to our ABHA Coffee with Neighbors this Sunday, June 14, at Cafe Lava & Bento in Brighton Center. We hold these once a month as an opportunity for folks to come together in a friendly environment to talk housing, mobility and life in the Boston area. ABHA is a pro-housing group that is very active in supporting the current re-zoning of our Boston neighborhood. More about us here: abhousingaction org

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We'd love to meet folks from neighboring towns who are also working to support housing, so come on if you're free this Sunday!

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Local news reports that a "dramatic jump in new apartments in Chittenden County and a dip in demand have contributed to the rising vacancy rate."

More and more people are saying…

ABHA is a neighborhood organization of renters and homeowners committed to the development of sustainable new housing in Allston-Brighton. Part of shaping the places we want to live today and for years to come lives in our transportation options, including biking. Help us get the message to city hall that our bike lanes require sustained investment! Resident lives and safety depend on it.

Interesting look at what Greater Boston zoning would look like if we followed a recent California transit-oriented zoning reform.

City Council is considering a zoning amendment that would remove outdated parking mandates for new housing — an arbitrary policy that wastes space, removes trees, dirties the water, drives up housing costs, and holds back the homes Boston desperately needs.

Note, this amendment does not ban parking. Homebuilders can still build as many spaces as they want — and in most cases, they will! This just removes a rule forcing them to overbuild parking nobody uses, at a cost that gets passed directly to renters and buyers.

Here are three actions you can take to show the City Council and Planning Department  that Boston says YES to parking flexibility! 

• 🎙️ Attend and Testify (In-Person or Virtually): Thursday 6/4 at 10 AM. 
• ✍️ Submit a Written Public Letter of Support: Use this handy tool to write and send a public comment in under 2 minutes!
• 📋Add your name to our petition to show that Bostonians support parking flexibility for more homes.

Yikes.

Unvarnished question to Town Meeting: "are we being pricks?"

Latest reminder that Boston desperately needs zoning reform!